One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
—Oscar Wilde, 1895
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Men are able to assist fortune but not to thwart her. They can weave her designs, but they cannot destroy them.
—Niccolò Machiavelli, 1531The one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.
—Salvador Dalí, 1953Methinks the human method of expression by sound of tongue is very elementary and ought to be substituted for some ingenious invention which should be able to give vent to at least six coherent sentences at once.
—Virginia Woolf, 1899In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1878As natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection.
—Charles Darwin, 1859The great difficulty lies in trying to transpose last night’s moment to a day which has no knowledge of it.
—Zora Neale Hurston, 1942Death renders all equal.
—Claudian, c. 395Commerce has made all winds her ministers.
—John Sterling, 1843Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.
—D.H. Lawrence, 1908Any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain.
—Santiago Ramón y Cajal, 1897Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
—Henry Kissinger, 1972Much money makes a country poor, for it sets a dearer price on every thing.
—George Herbert, 1640